Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Extracting the rock

Now that we have dug out all the dirt, we need to get the rock out. We start with all the exposed rock.




We start breaking the rock up into smaller pieces.



And once it is broken up into manageable pieces -- 80 to 200 pounds -- we can pull it out, leaving behind a lot of smaller pieces.




What to do with the larger pieces? We haul them around to the front of the house and put them on the curb. We started with two rocks from before the heart surgery.





and now we have a much larger crowd. We should be able to get rid of these by posting them on Craig's List as "Landscape Rocks". But we may wait until we get even more out of the back.